Ethernet at 10 Gbps

An anonymous reader writes "This article talks about 10 Gigabit Ethernet and asks, 'But just how much data can a person consume?' Currently at work, we're working on a major project to re-architect our core application platform so that the different systems can be de-coupled and hosted separately. The legacy design implicitly relies on systems being in the same LAN due to bandwidth-expensive operations (e.g., database replication). Having this much bandwidth would change the way we design. What would you do with this much bandwidth?"

Comments

Re:Way overkill

[BusDriver]

Great post, all very true points.

However, I'd still mod you down. Juniper networks (layer3) and Extreme Networks (layer2) over that Cisco crap anyday! ;)

The company I work for is using GigE as a local metro area access method. Moving to 10gig will probably be one of the next things we do.
I can't see it being something normal users will ever need though, most people (by this I mean users) wouldn't notice if their network card was turned down to 10meg (as long as it was still full duplex)

Tim

At the risk of my karma...

[ThatComputerGuy]

typical fucking /.
<nemith> bunch of kiddies who sit behind thier modems, no nothing of a enterprise network
<nemith> they have stories about "wireless 802.11 voip phones" and of course they blow the article out of porportion and relate it to using a phone with public hotspots...
<nemith> shit dude... it's for corporations with a voip and wireless network!
<nemith> and now this... 10 gig ethernet ... sure it sounds riduclous to some fucking kiddie behind cable modem
<amrit> haha
<nemith> but you take a high bandwidth applicaiton place a bunch of servers/desktops with gig connection to thier switches
<nemith> how do you think the switches talk to each other
<nemith> you add up the bandwidth of many users... you may eventually need 10 gig
<nemith> </rant>
<amrit> you set those bitch ass niggas straight?
<nemith> not worth it
<amrit> heh
<amrit> how about i just paste this log there?
<nemith> sure
<nemith> i don't care
<nemith> fucking /.